Age of Salutary Neglect (1650-1750)

Question 1

Mercantilism

Answer 1

Economic power was rooted in a favorable balance of trade and the control of specie (hard currency).

Question 2

Navigation Acts

Answer 2

Required colonists to buy goods only from England, to sell certain products only to England, and pay duties on non-English imports.
Sought to establish English control over colonial commerce.

Question 3

Did English colonists protest that Navigation Acts when they first came into effect?

Answer 3

No, they were still to reliant on England for trade and military protection at that point.

Question 4

Colonial Governments

Answer 4

Governor

Colonial Legislatures - all were bicameral (except PA) to reflect the British Parliament.

Question 5

Bacon’s Rebellion

Answer 5

VA - 1676. Frontier farmers were subject to raids, so settlers banded together to drive natives out. Stopped by gov. in Jamestown, who did not want a war with the Indians. The frontiersman became angry with the gov., and were led by Nathaniel Bacon.
Demanded that Gov. William Berkeley grant him militia to raise an army and attack the tribes. Berkeley said no, Bacon did it anyway and also burned Jamestown to the ground. (Often cited as a populist uprising)

Question 6

Stono Uprising

Answer 6

One of the most successful slave uprisings. 1739. Slaves met near Stono River, collected guns and ammunition, killed planters/storekeepers, and liberated slaves. While trying to escape, most were killed/captured. Incited stricter slave laws and regulations.

Question 7

Salem Witch Trials

Answer 7

1692 - hysteria over witchcraft that incited the executions of women believed to be witches.

Question 8

Dominion of New England

Answer 8

English government that tried to clamp down on illegal trade.

Question 9

Prominent Great Awakening Leaders

Answer 9

Jonathon Edwards

George Whitefield

Question 10

Great Awakening

Answer 10

Wave of religious revivalism
Predetermination
Response to Enlightenment
Evangelism - based on emotional preaching

Question 11

Ben Franklin

Answer 11

Enlightenment thinker, wrote Poor Richard’s Almanack

Question 12

Life in colonies in the early 1700s

Answer 12

Most colonists lived in the rural areas. Blacks lived in countryside and south (mainly as slaves).
Cities - most immigrants settled in cities. Work paid too little, high rates of poverty. Bad sanitation. They did, although, provide education and progress.

Question 13

Colleges in 1700s

Answer 13

Primarily to train ministers.

Education was still pretty rare.

Question 14

Middle Colonies

What did they focus on?

Answer 14

New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania

Agriculture

Question 15

New England

What did they focus on?

Answer 15

Connecticut, Rhode Island, MA Bay, New Hampshire

Trade

Question 16

Chesapeake

What did they focus on?

Answer 16

Maryland and Virginia

Combined features of lower south and middle colonies.

Question 17

Lower South

What did they focus on?

Answer 17

Carolinas

Slavery and cash crops (although majority of farmers did not have slaves)